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| Fidel Castro - Dead Again? |
| 2004-01-16 |
| Uncorroborated rumors that Cuban President Fidel Castro had died or suffered a stroke buzzed around Miami-Dade County on Friday, with anxious callers inundating police departments, media outlets and exile groups. ’’We’ve gotten hundreds of calls, mostly from the media, but also from our own officers and some members of the public,’’ said Miami-Dade police spokesman Randy Rossman. ``At this point, we are not mobilizing anyone for anything special at this time.’’ The latest rumor — something that has occurred frequently over the years — appear to have been spawned from comments published Wednesday from Luis Eduardo Garzón, the leftist mayor of Bogota, Colombia. He said that Castro appeared to be ’’very sick’’ during their talks in late December. amazing how the mayor from a major cocaine producing area is tight with castro, ain’t it? Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez met with his friend Castro in Cuba on Wednesday, Cuban state television reported, without offering details of the visit. those crazy dictators, always covering for eachother; of course, maybe hugo wants to annex cuba One senior exile community leader said he was contacted by a CIA official Friday to ask what he knew about it. don’t know if i buy that, but who knows what the caribbean desk looks like these days with the m.e./c. asia being the hot spots A foreign correspondent in Havana took a precautionary drive past Castro’s offices in the Palace of the Revolution Friday afternoon and reported that all seemed normal. ’’It’s a rumor that started yesterday,’’ CANF executive director Joe Garcia said Friday afternoon. ``It’s wishful thinking. I don’t have anything on it. But it’s gotta be right some time.’’ sooner than later, but what happens after the old bastard kicks the bucket? |
| Posted by:4thInfVet |
| #4 Gotta love socialists for their family values. Of course. And it'll all be nice and legal, just like iraq's elections under saddam were. It's a DEMOCRACY, after all. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-16 10:05:03 PM |
| #3 His brother will take over and keep it in the family and then hand over to someone in the next generation. Gotta love socialists for their family values. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-1-16 9:59:52 PM |
| #2 This is a black box that is beyond speculation. Nobody knows I think, not even the Cuban government. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-1-16 9:28:37 PM |
| #1 I always have wondered what will happen in a post Castro Cuba- and it is curious that I have never read a single word of speculation on the subject. It is almost as if its taken for granted that will be the end of the Revolution, there is no power base there to keep a grip on the country, and they all lived happily ever after. Any ideas out there? |
| Posted by: Grunter 2004-1-16 9:20:36 PM |